Execution leaders are in regular touch with the day-to-day realities of business and people. Being present in the “power of now”, the personal connections build intuitive feel for leadership and followers.

They live in reality and do not shade it to make a good appearance. Embracing reality is about keeping the view of global trends and measuring your own progress, not internally but externally.

Execution leaders set clear goals and priorities. The logic of business thinking is to focus on three or four clear priorities. A leader who has 10 priorities does not know himself what the most important things are. Execution Leader aligns few clear goals across the organisation and simplifies things so that others can understand, evaluate and act on them.

One of the concerns in widespread business is lack of perseverance and ability to follow through.

Reward the doers. People produce specific results if they are rewarded accordingly. Rewards include monetary value and beyond

The sixth execution competency is to expand people’s capabilities through coaching.

The last execution competency, which is the basis for all the six to stand on is self-awareness. Leading a business requires strong character, emotional fortitude and awareness of strengths and weaknesses especially in dealing with other people, and the ability to build on the strengths and correct the weaknesses.

Yes, Leadership and its role in executing strategy is a hot topic at the moment. Palladium Group (in partnership with leading Australian universities) is currently undergoing a global research on Leadership for Execution of Strategy. Here is a link to their global survey (filling it up will give you a free access to the research results in November) https://www.regonow.com/palladium/link.cfm?link_id=81&dx=PQZKV32159&lg=0
If you would like to take part in a survey as a company, Palladium is happy to provide an analysis of your results against total population of the survey. Contact them for details.